Homebrew PCBs

Which is why i bought Target, which has a pin limit.
I can make boards as large as i like, but the number of pins is limited.

Has disadvantages also, but i prefer it over size limit.

ST


On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:18:26 +0100, Alan King <alan@...> wrote:

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>   The fact is, it does unduly penalize those who would want relatively
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> simple schematics but need larger unused areas.  It'd be nice if you
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> could design everything on the small board, but then break the rules and
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> spread things out as needed, only after the area rule break you can't
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> add new parts.  Problem is then you could simply load up the small
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> board, break the rules, then do what you want.  Hard to figure a way
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> where people can't cheat easily.  Complexity limit as in others is just
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> as bad, you also can't deeply test things without a lot of parts..
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>   But that leads to exactly what it needs, an area * complexity limit.
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> Stay below the bounds and you can do what you want, for larger size
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> boards you are limited to a maximum complexity.  That would allow the
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> people with the $49 version to do exactly what is overly limited, making
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> larger size boards that simply need spacing for large components but are
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> still rediculously simple and should hardly qualify as needing the $200
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> per module version.  And if you had to choose at the outset for larger
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> board or small board but no complexity limit, that should be easy enough
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> to program in.
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> Alan